Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, and Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX. Source: Twitter, @SBF_Alameda Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance invested in the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX, and FTX Token (FTT) rallied. The unspecified “strategic equity investment” into the company that was founded in spring of this year was announced today, along with Binance’s decision to take…
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While major money transfer company MoneyGram has already pushed more than USD 100 million through Ripple’s platform, the blockchain-based startup’s capability to lure more clients will be crucial to the partnership’s future, according to Alex Holmes, CEO and Chairman of MoneyGram. As reported in November, MoneyGram is moving c. 10% of its transaction volume through…
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IOTA (MIOTA) prices have fallen in the past 24 hours – despite upward trends in most altcoin prices and the release of a new roadmap. At the time of writing (11:46 UTC), IOTA, ranked 23rd by market capitalization, is down almost 2% on the past 24 hours, at a time when tokens like Ethereum (ETH)…
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Jeremy Allaire. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, IMF Major crypto financial services firm behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, Circle , intensifies competition in the stablecoin market as the company estimates mass crypto adoption in 2-3 years. In the meantime, USDC trading volume has already jumped 954% this year. Circle’s 2020 will be all about…
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Greta Thunberg. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, PBS NewsHour Tron’s Justin Sun has sparked a Twitter storm by publicly committing USD 1 million to climate change activist Greta Thunberg’s cause. Sun was writing in the wake of the recent UN-led COP25 climate conference, which concluded recently in Madrid – leaving activists dismayed at the lack…
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As a major crypto company warned that their users will not be able to receive funds to their Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (BSV) wallets due to the coin’s hard fork in February 2020, people online wonder if the project is sabotaging itself. Digital asset custody company BitGo said that this comes as a result of the…
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Cardano (ADA) price fell over the weekend despite the platform launching its Incentivized Testnet on Sunday. After touching USD 0.037 on Saturday, the coin is now trading at c. USD 0.036 and is down by 0.5% in the past 24 hours (15:30 AM UTC). The price is down by 6% in a week and by…
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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ Binance Listings: VITE (VITE) Binance.US Listings: Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
Today and in the past week, Cosmos (ATOM) is one of the best performing digital assets in the top 20, and is registering gains against BTC, ETH and the USD. At pixel time (14:34 UTC), ATOM, ranked 16th by market capitalization, trades at c. USD 4.05 and is up by 2% in a day and…
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Russia’s biggest darknet community, Hydra, has released a white paper as it prepares to issue an initial coin offering (ICO) that it says will see token growth skyrocket by 700% by June next year. Hydra’s white paper takes the form of an investment memorandum (link here, although the memo can only be accessed using anonymity…
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